Homemade Baked Churros Recipe

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4.6

1,477 reviews
Excellent
  • Prep Time

    25 mins

  • Cook Time

    20 mins

  • Total Time

    45 mins

  • Servings

    30

  • Course

    Dessert

  • Cuisine

    Mexican

Homemade Baked Churros Recipe

This Homemade Baked Churros recipe involves making a dough from water, sugar, butter, flour, eggs, and vanilla, cooked on the stovetop before folding in eggs to achieve the right texture. The dough is piped and baked, offering a baked alternative to traditional fried churros with a cinnamon-sweet flavor and a crisp exterior.

Description

The Homemade Baked Churros Recipe uses a stovetop method to bring together water, butter, brown sugar, salt, and flour into a thick, glossy dough. After cooking and slightly cooling, eggs and vanilla extract are mixed in carefully until the dough reaches a creamy mashed potato-like consistency. This dough is then piped into churro shapes on parchment-lined baking sheets and baked at 400°F (200°C) on stacked baking sheets to protect the pastry from burning.

Baking rather than frying yields churros that are crisp on the outside while tender inside, with cinnamon and sugar providing classic churro sweetness and spice. The recipe suggests serving with a bittersweet chocolate sauce made from chopped chocolate, milk, cornstarch, and vanilla, delivering a rich complement to the lightly sweet dough.

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Ingredients

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  • 1 cup water 8 oz / 225 g
  • ¼ cups sugar 4 oz / 113 g
  • https://thenoshery.com/spanish-hot-chocolate-coconut-churros/
  • ½ cup butter 4 oz / 113 g
  • ¼ tsp salt
  • hot chocolate
  • ½ tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • 6 oz bittersweet chocolate at least 58% cacao, chopped, 1 cup / 180 g
  • 2 tablespoons brown sugar (white if you don’t have brown)
  • 2 ½ cups milk 20oz/570ml
  • ¼ tsp salt
  • ½ tsp cornstarch to be mixed with a 2 tsp of water, or cornflour
  • 1 cup all-purpose flour 5 oz / 143 g
  • ¼ teaspoon vanilla
  • 3 egg at room temperature
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